In your opinion. What's the most dangerous place in the world?

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Just curious. I always thought some spots in South America were bad because of all out gang violence then I saw a travel advisory for a place in Northern Europe that pretty much said "no humans allowed".

I don't think I've ever given it real serious thought. I know bad places everywhere, but never really tried to determine the exact worst place in the world.

Chad? Maybe somewhere in those Chinese deserts? I'm really not even sure. Siberia isn't as bad as it used to be (I think). And then there's Australia....

As for Myanmar, the reason the world gave no fucks about what was going on there was because the violence was explicitly aimed at Rohingya - and that's been a common theme since World War II. They're probably the last truly universally hated and persecuted people left on the planet. Countries have passed that human rights atrocity around the pacific like a blunt. Even now, people still don't really 'care'. A few nice, powerful remarks but is anyone saying they'll drop a few tomahawks on them? Nope. Just polity keep down the ethnic cleansing, its noisy and bad for business.

And West Virginia is definitely worse than Alabama. Also North Dakota.

If you're looking for the "my opinion" type answer, it's any place with poor health care infrastructure that lets deadly communicable incurable disease take root. At least corrupt officials you can bribe and warzones you can try and drive around.

As for Myanmar, the reason the world gave no fucks about what was going on there was because the violence was explicitly aimed at Rohingya - and that's been a common theme since World War II. They're probably the last truly universally hated and persecuted people left on the planet. Countries have passed that human rights atrocity around the pacific like a blunt. Even now, people still don't really 'care'. A few nice, powerful remarks but is anyone saying they'll drop a few tomahawks on them? Nope. Just polity keep down the ethnic cleansing, its noisy and bad for business.

And West Virginia is definitely worse than Alabama. Also North Dakota.

I'm too lazy to get sources to contest your Libya claim.Alabama is probably going to elect a child molester as senator so that's a point to WV and ND.

If you're looking for the "my opinion" type answer, it's any place with poor health care infrastructure that lets deadly communicable incurable disease take root. At least corrupt officials you can bribe and warzones you can try and drive around.

I was going to start my "everyone forgets about africa" lens but looking at that list everything in the top 20 is like yep yep yep

then i see US at 50 with places like Honduras, Uganda, and even Jamaica behind it and I'm genuinely clueless as to what they're using as a metrics

By DY_nastyGo To PostI was going to start my "everyone forgets about africa" lens but looking at that list everything in the top 20 is like yep yep yep

then i see US at 50 with places like Honduras, Uganda, and even Jamaica behind it and I'm genuinely clueless as to what they're using as a metrics

A bunch of internal & external factors. US is involved in a bunch of wars and is a terrorism target, in addition to crime and insane levels of domestic weapons and mass murders. Then there's economic inequality, etc.

By livefromkyotoGo To PostA bunch of internal & external factors. US is involved in a bunch of wars and is a terrorism target, in addition to crime and insane levels of domestic weapons and mass murders. Then there's economic inequality, etc.

Yeah if we're adding women and kids into the mix it gets more complicated. Also if you're of the native population or you mean just generally as americans or europeans somewhere. In many places the femicide rate is no joke among the native population.

If you're looking for the "my opinion" type answer, it's any place with poor health care infrastructure that lets deadly communicable incurable disease take root. At least corrupt officials you can bribe and warzones you can try and drive around.

These are weird lists. A lot of the rankings don't logically add up with what I "know" about the countries but I guess it depends on how much they weigh isolated cases of violence in pockets vs country as a whole or how much influence big incidents have.

I've seen a lot of people talk about going to Colombia on vacation and considering Medellin for my next trip.

By livefromkyotoGo To PostA bunch of internal & external factors. US is involved in a bunch of wars and is a terrorism target, in addition to crime and insane levels of domestic weapons and mass murders. Then there's economic inequality, etc.

By DY_nastyGo To PostI'm perpetually confused about South Africa. I think I'd actually have to visit to make sense of it at this point.I mean, yeah there's that and its something rare to the US mostly. At the same time, there are plenty of countries where murder isn't even something that makes the news lol

Slightly facetiously, slightly not, does murder even make the news in the US anymore or only the mass murders?

Should the fact that's a legitimate question raise eyebrows?Who knows.

But on a "peace" index the fact america has a large military in several places around the world and a psychotic president probably cements it's place on the other side of "peaceful". Even if in comparison to several countries around the world, you're not expecting main battle tanks to be rolling down the gardens of Maine any time soon.

But for raw violence and terror (as in, "oh god i may get kidnapped at gunpoint and forced to harvest my organs / fight in some extremists radical army") it's probably not really up there in comparison to a lot of 3rd world countries where life is an every day fight in many ways.

Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, Honduras are all far worse on a full country scale.

But i think part of this is because people have focused on cities and not countries too.

Iraq, Chad, Sudan, Pakistan, Congo .... They're just not safe at all in any part of the country. And there is no reliable reporting in most of those countries either. So getting it on a "per city" basis is impossible. And in the case of many of those, the government doesn't really have control over huge chunks of the country.

well, the us news past the local level is just a shitshow these days for the most part lol. major outlets would have you convinced that the us is burning down all around us. yeah there's a lot of mass shootings (something that's basically american tradition at this point) and the cops are trigger happy, but its a far cry from vigilante hit squads in the philipines that'll drop a body for a full tank of gas or chad where every day is pubg

Pretty much. States are basically their own country and then we wonder why we have so many problems. Soon enough the sheer size and vastly different politics between all these regions (and regions within the states themselves) will reach a boiling point (that boiling point is now if we're being truly honest).